I
had been up and down all day yesterday and I was starting that a bit
today too so mom decided to take me for a walk since it had finally
turned nice. That sounded fine to me once I realized we were going for a
walk and not to the vet and I calmed right down once she stepped
outside with my carry bag.

Mom set my bag down at the trail
entrance but I decided to veer off into the park. We almost never do
this but the park was empty. I had fun for a few minutes then things
started getting bad and amazingly fast. So from mom's point of view.

"At first I just noticed she wasn't moving quite right. Then she was
moving very jerky and off balance. We had just been there a few minutes.
We turned to head back to the car. In no time at all she was stumbling
and lethargic. She would stumble along then sort of lay her head a bit
in an odd way then stumble along some more. She was moving along with
her nose dragging down like strait down. She fought me going in the bag
but at that point things were obviously very wrong. I let her out of her
bag once in the car. She seemed okay in there but once she got home and
I let her out I saw she was worse."

"She did the jerky looking
stumbly walk to the house but she fought me when I tried picking her up.
She tried to lift her paw to go up the step and was slow and off
balance and kept missing the step by a wide margin. I carried her in
and set her on her washer. She headed for her water but couldn't
actually find the target of the bowl of water she wanted, like with the
step earlier."

"I tried opening the washer for her but she would
look in then recoil away, I think she was dizzy. She tried to go across
to the dresser to head for the closet and fell. She got back up but
would go unsteadily a short ways and lay down before trying again. I
raced off and got the crate and off to the vet we went. I called them
and explained what was going on and said I thought maybe they sprayed
the grass at the park with something."

"On the long drive to the
vet she began vomiting. A lot of vomiting. I opened up the crate and
held her hands and told her she was going to be okay. She felt fairly
cold. After plenty of vomiting she stopped and she began to perk up a
bit and relax some the last few miles to the vet."

"By the time
we saw the vet and let her out of the crate she seemed pretty much
normal, walking a bit squat but might have been from fear and
uncertainty. She was warm to the touch again. The vet did her best to
see if her vision was tracking normally and it seemed it was. By the
time we tried to get some blood from her to test if there was a blood
sugar issue she was acting normal. She could move the sort of precarious step
from the exam table to the chair no problem at all. She was walking
perfectly fine again."

"The try at getting blood failed as her
usual vet was in sugary but advising by relay to the vet who did see us.
Pua wasn't exactly in the mood to cooperate with an amateur's first
time trying to find their hard to find vein. So with really nothing left
to do for her we set up to go with a anti-nausea shot to be used just
in case she needs it but she's fine."

"We hosed the crate out as
she had rolled all around in her vomit. Pua vomit is sticky. The exam
room floor was like a icky movie theater floor by the end. We borrowed a
towel for in the crate and were on our way home"

"I let her out
of the crate on the ride home and she spent her time checking all the
windows then settled by my feet but insisted on hugging my hand close
and so for a large portion of the ride home I was in the crashing
airplane position so that she could hug me. We got home and she wanted
me to carry her in but once we got to the door she wanted down."

"She went right to the washer and climbed up and went across and climbed
just fine to the closet. She's had water to drink and is snuggled in
with Aurora"

"Best guess was the first guess possible pesticide
or herbicide poisoning. but we will certainly keep an eye on her and she
will never walk in the park again, only on the hiking trails out in the
woods."
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Aw, Aurora is so nice to me. She let me have the best spot in the closet tonight. She never lets me have that spot ~ Pua

April 8 ·12:49AMI got up and drank some water. I came out after onto the shelf to look at mom and she got me some ants. I ate like I was starving(I did lose last night's dinner after all). I made some happy cooing noises it was so good. I'm back with Aurora but she has taken the good spot back and wont relinquish it.

I
took it easy last night and spent a lot of time just sitting by the
window. I woke mom for a couple treats and a snuggle and ate a lot of
food and moving around fine.

April 8 ·10:42AMAnd I just got up for a treat of ants Then back in the washer after a bit of debate on what best to do.

April 8 ·10:53AMWasher is just not doing it for me today. I'm off to the closet.

April 8 ·12:07PM
So hard to sleep sometimes. I came down from the closet to sniff the window awhile then went in the washer. was just up again for a drink and snack before rejoining Aurora in the washer.

April 8 ·1:30PM
Up for a bit more water. The neighborhood is noisy today. Oh I see you mom, ants please. Okay back in the washer.

April 8 ·2:14PM
I had a drink and was going to go to the closet but I heard a monster outside(A grass chewing monster) so i;m frozen in place.

My
old girl doggy Hyzzie has a lot of trouble with the heat and it's not
getting easier with age so I bought a cooling vest for her. After lots
of research settled on the chillybuddy. I tried it on her today. She
flipped over belly up legs to the sky head thrown back and refused to
move till I took it off. I knew I might need to explain to passers by
why she had a jacket on in the heat but didn't think it would be so hard
to explain it to the dog. ~ Pua's mommy

"Really lady? You will pay for disturbing my sleep. I'm going to get Pua to pinch you when you are sleeping tonight." Aurora.
She seems to be enjoying having the washer to herself ~ Pua's mommy(Aurora's servant).

April 10 ·12:52amThis rotten log seems nice and fresh. I will forgive you for not letting me out for the walk I wanted(at almost 1am).

April 10 ·10:39AM
Fresh blanket in the closet. I'm snuggled down in it, Aurora's on top.

April 11 ·11:16AM
It's been a nice quiet, sleepy day. Just got up and had my wake up snack and am back snoozing with Aurora now.

April 12 ·2:13PM
Sleeping in the washer with Aurora today. I got up once and went to the closet and came right back. I may or may not have gone to pee. I don't mind wetting the bed long as it's not the one I'm sleeping in.

April 13 ·1:20AM
Oh I woke mom last night with bells. I think maybe that cancels out the claw hole in the vinegar bottle and keeps me in the clear.

Tonight just been up and had my treat so far.

April 13 ·1:26PM
I took it easy last night. Aurora even had to resort to waking mom for a morning snack herself.

April 13 ·1:28PM

Hyzzie dog got a second try at her cooling vest. Mom waited till on the way home to put it on and get her and the vest nice and wet. She moved along more quickly and didn't pant as hard. When we got hom and mom took the vest off it was nice and cool like it had come from the fridge and Hyzzie's fur was not hot to the touch like it gets int he sun.

I'm sure it will take her some time to associate the jacket with cooling instead of warming but at least she's had one positive experience with it now.

Just window sniffing

April 14 ·I took it easy last night too. Sometimes a girl just has to relax. I had my avocado, some of Aurora's soup and sniffed out the window and that's about all.

April 14 ·3:22PM
Cooing and grunting softly in my sleep.

April 15 ·
It's a bit embarrassing to say but I fell into a saucer of canned food last night. I got it all over my back. Mom thought it might be a treat for the dogs but they didn't want it. I guess it was softer than the floor alone.

April 15 ·5:35PMMid sleep snack attack. I got ants.

I got the closet nest today and Aurora has the washer.

April 16 ·12:51AM
Spent some time hugging mom in the closet nest. She should sleep there with me all the time.

April 16 ·6:05PM
Snack attack. So mom changed my blanket while I was up. So I said if you're going to do that you can tuck me in, please. So now I'm snuggled down inside the blanket with some ants in my tummy. Sweet!

Aurora:
Pua wasn't doing her job so I had to wake my servant myself by knocking
rattly containers down at 5 am. I needed my soup freshened.

April 19 ·11:52AM
I had the washer this morning but then I heard the fridge and mom offering Aurora a treat so I came on over to the closet too. Then we jostled for position and Aurora decided to leave but she kept getting spooked and coming back to the closet. After some pacing around she's settled back in the closet nest with me. The final straw was Beaker whining at her that he wanted to be friends. That was just too scary.

mom
put in a fresh blanket in the washer even though Aurora has stopped
wetting her bed lately for some reason. mom still thought a fresh
blanket would be nice. Well, Aurora was like, that's not my lovely
jungle blanket so is in the closet nest with me today.
I got up for a morning snack and Aurora decided to pace till I came back. Mom did offer her a snack too.

Aurora
was sitting in the closet nest and started to yawn and her tongue hit
the wall and she stopped and pulled her tongue back in then yawned again
and her tongue hit the wall again sticking to it for second like a wet
spaghetti noodle before it came back in.

Aurora

At some point(before or after
the photo) she yawned and her
tongue stuck against the wall
like wet spaghetti before she
pulled it back in.

Our
internet was down so I couldn't update you how I'm in the closet again
but Aurora is back in the washer now that she has her jungle blanket
back. She was peeking out this morning though so got a snack of
buttermilk. I got a few ants myself.

Aurora
peeked out of the washer and mom brought her a treat but she still came
out after having that and paced around awhile before setting into the
closet nest with me. Darn I had it good before too all stretched out.

Aurora broke on of the platforms off the cat tower last night. It fell onto mom's bed.
Oh and Aurora is psychic. Mom was in bed sleeping and woke with an
image of Aurora's chiller bowl full of frosty soup. She looked up and
saw Aurora on the shelf looking at her. Mom got her fresh soup.

Hyzzie
got to use her cooling jacket on her last walk today. She got her first
"Aren't you warm in your coat" comment. Mom: "well, that's a cooling
jacket" "oh, well that's different"
Hyzzie was a bit reluctant at first since it's been awhile but then she felt the cooling and was liking it and bouncing along.

I'm
in the closet nest though I started out curled on the dinning shelf
moping and hugging my own tail. Most of the blanket was knocked down and
what was left was wet. So mom changed it but I kept moping so she gave
me ants. Yum. I then went to enjoy the nice fresh blanket.

Whoo,
getting a bit stuffy in the washer with Aurora. Out for a groom and to
check things out. Okay I'm heading for my princess hammock, but some
more grooming on the tower first. Time to turn the AC on mom.